Rural / Metro Fire Dept., Inc.

Rural / Metro Fire Dept., Inc., operating through its Specialty Fire Division and doing business as Rural Metro Fire Dept., is a for-profit federal contractor providing Type 2 wildland firefighting hand crews, fire suppression, and emergency response services to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), competing on an unrestricted, full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations.

The vendor's federal footprint is highly concentrated with the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management National Office, which accounts for 56 awards (81% of total prime portfolio) worth $108.4 million in combined potential value. Rural Metro Fire holds two significant IDIQ vehicles with BLM: the Alaska Type 2 Wildland Fire Hand Crew Services 2020-2025 contract (a $47 million multiple-award vehicle awarded in 2020, expiring March 31, 2025, with 28 task orders carrying $6.6 million in combined potential value) and the Alaska Type 2 Contract Crew (AK2CC) Services IDIQ (a $7.9 million single-award vehicle awarded August 12, 2021, expiring September 30, 2025, with 24 task orders worth $7 million combined). A newly awarded Alaska Wildland Fire Hand Crew Services IDIQ, issued February 26, 2026, carries a $40 million ceiling running through March 31, 2031. Recent representative delivery orders include a $495 thousand time-and-materials crew and mobilization assignment under the AK2CC IDIQ (July 2, 2026), a $674.5 thousand time-and-materials assignment and minimum guarantee order (May 14, 2025), and a $890.7 thousand firm fixed-price delivery order for Clearwater Crew to Lime Point services (January 15, 2025). The vendor also holds a single Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Bureau of Reclamation (5 task orders, sole-source award for fire and emergency response services at the Yuma Area Office through September 30, 2029, valued at $434.3 thousand). Remaining customer agencies—the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R3-Southwestern Region (2 awards, $103 thousand combined), the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (2 awards, $990 thousand combined), and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service (1 award)—together represent less than 10% of award volume and dollars. Work is performed across nine performance regions throughout Alaska with crews stationed at designated Assembly Points and capable of nationwide deployment; place of performance includes Anchorage, Fairbanks, Manley Hot Springs, and other Alaskan locations, as well as Scottsdale, Arizona, and subordinate incident locations in California, Montana, and other western states.

Activity has grown unevenly, with eight awards in 2022, fifteen in 2023, ten in 2024, and fourteen in 2025; four awards have been issued in 2026 to date. The recompete cliff is significant: the $47 million Alaska Type 2 Wildland Fire Hand Crew Services 2020-2025 IDIQ and the $7.9 million AK2CC IDIQ both expire by September 30, 2025, exposing the vendor to approximately $53.9 million in recompete risk. The newly awarded $40 million Alaska Wildland Fire Hand Crew Services IDIQ (February 26, 2026) partially mitigates this exposure but operates under a different contract mechanism.

Service Contract Inventory reporting captures a narrow slice of Rural Metro Fire's federal services work: $3.1 million invoiced across FY2023 (the only year with SCI-reportable activity), corresponding to roughly 19.9 FTEs on prime contracts. Government-paid median hourly rates on SCI-reportable service contracts ran around $73.69/hr, with a range from $62.71/hr (10th percentile) to $82.62/hr (90th percentile). SCI data shows zero subcontractor hours across prime records, indicating the vendor builds its own crew and support-staff capacity rather than relying on subcontractors. This profile is consistent with the vendor's core business: Rural Metro Fire operates as a vertically integrated specialty firefighting service provider, with no reported sub-awards and no documented teaming relationships on federal contracts in the award portfolio.

The vendor's corporate structure includes four subsidiaries—Sunrise Air Ambulance LLC (self-certified small disadvantaged business), American Medical Response, Inc., Guardian Flight, Inc., and American Medical Response Of Inland Empire—which signal a broader emergency services footprint beyond wildland firefighting, though federal award activity remains concentrated in forestry and fire suppression. The vendor is headquartered in Union Grove, Alabama.